In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, CounterRotatingProps wrote:

Hoi Danny!

very nice work --- what is it with you Netherlanders anyway?  You seem to be among the world's best programmers and engineers :))

Initial results/comments/observations:

1. I'd just put the python stuff together with the win-installer (or linux package), if you can. And then let the user find the Python file. [I'm still not sure which set of DLL's are correct as the pysix ones (all of them, including the VC dlls) seem newer than the installer version - got it to work following your lead immediately above, just maybe a little differently:

= installed SXGO first, 
= unzipped pysix, putting only the boost_python-vc90-mt-1_39.dll into the Python26\DLLs dir, 
= ran 2.6's IDLE from the start menu, 
= openned your sample retw_table.py in IDLE, then 'run'
*SUCCESS*

Here's what I got (from IDLE window):
>>>  ================================ RESTART ================================
>>>
just read:  65 : A
just read:  66 : B
[...etc...]
just read:  100 : d
just read:  255 : ÿ
just read:  0 : 
Done

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2. Using Python Version 3.1's IDLE, there are syntax errors as the print instruction has changed (or was broken from version changes, depending on how you think of it ;)  Print is now a 'function' e.g Print ("Hello Nederlanders") --- yes, you'd have to recompile the 2.6 pyd to 3.1 ...  I think it would be a good idea to go to 3.1 (unless your linux distro's are still on 2.6 which is pretty likely.
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3a. Just a nit: For SXGO's control buttons, you might want to put tooltips (mouse-over help) - wasn't sure which was run versus fast-forward.
3b. Add a status bar at the bottom to reflect the current running/stepping action - gives a bit of help what it's actually doing.

4. Which development platforms did you use on Win and Linux - the full visual studio or the express version, and GCC on Ubu?

5. I don't know how many other Python'ers we have here, but it would be wonderful to embed the script engine in some of the other toolsets. (PY/SX/B or PY/SPIN would be killer :))


I'll noodle more and report back soon... ik heb ervan genoten!
again, nice work!

cheers and 
- Howard

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